Environment

Michael Yudell, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, Drexel University School of Public Health

Tuesday, May 13, 2014, 6:30 AM

Sen. Marco Rubio wants you to know that he doesn’t agree with the “notion” of climate change. Speaking to ABC News’ Jonathan Karl, in a report that aired Sunday, the Florida Republican said, “I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate...
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Janet Golden, PhD, Professor of history, Rutgers University-Camden

Friday, April 25, 2014, 6:30 AM

Breathing. It is easy for most of us, but not for the 25 million Americans with asthma. Being black or Hispanic, poor, and young are among the risk factors for asthma. African Americans were three times as likely to die of asthma-related causes in 2009 as whites. Research reported recently in PLOS...
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Phoebe Jones, a Master of Public Health student at Drexel University

Friday, April 18, 2014, 6:30 AM

Just in case you were looking to add one more item to your list of Ways Humanity Threatens Itself, you’ll want to dive right into Martin J. Blaser’s Missing Microbes, out this month from Henry Holt and Co. As if it were not enough that overuse of antibiotics increases resistance to potentially...
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Michael Yudell, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, Drexel University School of Public Health

Sunday, April 6, 2014, 6:30 AM

There are few issues in the public sector today that affect us all in the way that industrial animal agriculture does. We all eat, and almost all of the food we consume is produced by this system. Not only aren’t most of us aware of the nature of the system that provides us with our food sources...
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Michael Yudell

Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 6:30 AM

Last Monday, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin told West Virginia residents that it was up to them whether or not to drink water contaminated by the Jan. 9 spill of the chemical 4-methylcyclohexane methanol (MCHM) into the Elk River. The spill occurred just upstream from a water intake for Charleston’s water...
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Michael Yudell

Wednesday, December 18, 2013, 6:30 AM

Update: A California judge on Tuesday, Jan. 7, issued a final verdict that added another $50 million to what the companies must pay.
On Monday, a California judge ordered three corporations —Sherwin-Williams, NL Industries, and ConAgra—to contribute $1.1 billion into a state-run fund...
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Michael Yudell

Thursday, December 12, 2013, 6:30 AM

Good people of Pennsylvania, are you paying attention to the things your elected officials – and the people they appoint – have been saying about climate change?
On Tuesday the State Senate approved, by a 42-8 vote, the appointment of E. Christopher Abruzzo as the Commonwealth’s...
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Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner, authors of “Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America’s Children”

Monday, November 4, 2013, 6:30 AM

For much of the 20th century, America was plagued by a terrible lead poisoning epidemic that sent children into comas, convulsions, and even death. Lead paint covered the walls of homes throughout the nation, especially in the old, industrial cities, and poisoned hundreds of thousands of children....
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Jonathan Purtle

Wednesday, October 30, 2013, 12:19 PM

“Tempeh Whiz wit'!” “Vegan cheesesteak!’’ Will these words soon be part of the cacophony of sizzling onion and clanking steel that echoes between Pat’s and Geno’s? Probably not, but recent activity in Philadelphia’s City Council indicates that this may...
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Janet Golden, PhD, Professor of history, Rutgers University-Camden

Thursday, July 18, 2013, 6:30 AM

Gesundheit, German for “health,” typically is said to someone after they sneeze. The Gesundheit! Institute is a not-for-profit health care organization founded by Dr. Hunter ”Patch” Adams, to create a new model of health care that is linked to community health, welcomes complementary...
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